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Trump\u2011appointed SEC and CFTC chiefs will stage a joint D.C. event to pitch a unified, \u201cpro\u2011innovation\u201d crypto agenda as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana trade calmly near key levels.<\/p>\n
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U.S. markets regulators are moving in lockstep on crypto \u2014 and they now have the political architecture to prove it. With both agencies led by Trump appointees, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will stage a joint event next Tuesday in Washington to showcase what they describe as a unified, pro-innovation crypto agenda.<\/a>\u200b<\/p>\n SEC Chairman Paul Atkins and new CFTC Chairman Mike Selig cast<\/a> the moment as a structural reset for U.S. digital asset oversight. \u201cMarket participants have been forced to navigate regulatory boundaries that are unclear in application and misaligned in design, based solely on legacy jurisdictional silos,\u201d they said in a joint statement announcing the event at CFTC headquarters. \u201cThis event will build on our broader harmonization efforts to ensure that innovation takes root on American soil, under American law, and in service of American investors, consumers, and economic leadership.\u201d<\/a>\u200b<\/p>\n Selig, formerly a senior SEC crypto official and until recently Atkins\u2019 direct subordinate, was tapped last month as the CFTC\u2019s permanent chair, replacing interim chief Caroline Pham. He has already rolled out a \u201cfuture-proof\u201d crypto initiative aimed at championing digital assets inside the derivatives watchdog, signaling that his mandate goes well beyond housekeeping. The White House has handed both agencies an ambitious brief to translate President Donald Trump\u2019s aggressive pro-crypto posture into concrete rules, even as Congress works in parallel on legislation to codify how the SEC and CFTC will divide the sprawling digital asset landscape.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The two commissions have been moving toward d\u00e9tente for more than a year. In September, Atkins and then\u2011CFTC Chair Pham publicly declared that long\u2011running \u201ccrypto turf wars\u201d were over, pairing a joint harmonization statement with a roundtable on prediction markets and decentralized finance. Next week\u2019s event, scheduled to start at 10 a.m. Eastern, will open with short remarks from each chairman before a joint panel discussion that is likely to serve as a policy signal not just to industry, but to lawmakers still drafting the next generation of U.S. market rules.<\/a>\u200b<\/p>\n The regulatory choreography is unfolding against a backdrop of firm but not euphoric markets. Bitcoin is trading around 89,443 dollars, up roughly 0.10% over the last 24 hours. Ethereum is hovering near 2,931 dollars, down about 0.7% on the day, while Solana changes hands at approximately 128 dollars after a modest daily pullback. Whether this new era of inter-agency unity ultimately narrows those famous \u201clegacy silos\u201d \u2014 or simply redraws them \u2014 will be tested in how quickly concrete rules follow the rhetoric.<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Trump\u2011appointed SEC and CFTC chiefs will stage a joint D.C. event to pitch a unified, \u201cpro\u2011innovation\u201d crypto agenda as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana trade calmly near key levels. Summary New…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20491,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20490\/revisions\/20491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}